Word: selection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bailoting was held to select three seniors, two juniors, and two sophomores for committee duty...
...decided to select the best stories in the Old Testament, cut them down for easier reading, and present them in a big well-printed book, profusely illustrated by an artist who could make the prophets and kings of Israel as real as the corner grocer and the local minister. The pictures on the four following pages are examples of what he meant. Along with 24 others, they are full-page illustrations for the big (9 in. by 12 in.) book, In Our Image* edited by Harte and published this week. The 26 stories, told in the fine, measured English...
...operator pushes buttons alongside the standard typewriter keyboard of the desk-size machine to select the desired type size and style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then, by a combination of an electronic memory and an electric eye, the machine automatically "justifies" the line, i.e., spaces it to fit flush in the column, and transfers it to a film on a rotating drum. At six letters a second, it can set twelve newspaper lines a minute, three times average linotype speed. Automatically developed, the film is ready for photoengraving...
...typical command, of which the drum will hold 4000 in sequence, might read: "select the Number in A-1 and add to it the Number in B-2 and put the sum in C-3." Such a command can be given and the work accomplished by the computing section of the machine every four thousandth of a second...
...assembly, ran the state campaigns in 1936 and 1940. He supported Ohio's Bob Taft last year, was later peeved by Dewey's do-nothing campaign. He insists, however, that he will be neutral on the job: "The chairman's job is to elect candidates, not select them...